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Is there a better Firefox fork for macOS? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/macos@lemmy.world
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It seems like Firefox crashes all the time on macOS. When you exist (⌘+Q) it says it crashed and wants to send a report back to Mozilla. I just realised I've been doing that for the 3 years I've been a Mac user, and Mozilla still can't be arsed to fix the problem. I'm beginning to think their code is not well ported to ARM64 and they don't care enough to fix it.

So now I'm wondering if one of the Firefox clones, which would be built from source, might be better ported to macOS.

Yes, I could use Safari, and I don't hate it, but I've been using Firefox since it was called Firebird, so like 20-25 years? Safari is completely different. My biggest gripe is that it doesn't support free ad blockers, but I did pay for Wipr2 so that should alleviate the issue. There are ad blocking options on Safari, but I don't think they're quite as good as uBlock Origin on Firefox.

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago

I run firefox on an m2 with a hundred tabs regularly and rarely do i have an issue. When i do i can usually narrow it down to one tab. I’ve got unlocked origin, youtube nonstop, and maybe a few other utility extensions. Maybe try disabling your extensions and see if that helps?

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    i hate to be that guy, but “works on my machine”. i use firefox on an m1 air all day every day and it runs flawlessly, although it starts chugging a little if i have 20+ tabs open (loaded). but i genuinely cannot remember the last time i’ve seen it crash.

    like someone else said, try disabling your extensions, or reinstall firefox on a new user account to try to isolate the issue

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